Faraway there in the sunshine are my highestaspirations.I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.- Louisa May Alcott

Am I not destroying my enemieswhen I make friends of them?- Abraham Lincoln

I believe that everything happens for a reason.People change so that you can learn to let go,things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.- Marilyn Monroe

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.The real miracle is the love that inspires them.In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.- A Course in Miracles

Obstacles are like wild animals.They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.If they see you are afraid of them...they are liable to spring upon you;but if you look them squarely in the eye,they will slink out of sight.- Orison Swett Marden

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All our dreams can come true,if we have the courage to pursue them.- Walt Disney

We cannot choose our external circumstances,but we can always choose how to respond to them.- Epictetus

I've learned that people will forget what you said,people will forget what you did,but people will never forget how you made them feel.- Maya Angelou

Most men lead lives of quiet desperationand go to the grave with the song still in them.- Henry David Thoreau

If things are not as you wish,wish them as they are.- Yiddish Proverb

The worst sin toward our fellow creaturesis not to hate them,but to be indifferent to them:that's the essence of inhumanity.- George Bernard Shaw

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangersbut to be fearless when facing them.- Rabindranath Tagore

Finish each day and be done with it.You have done what you could;some blunders and absurdities have crept in;forget them as soon as you can.Tomorrow is a new day;you shall begin it serenelyand with too high a spiritto be encumbered with your old nonsense.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know that the true essence of the Golden Ruleis always being compassionate, kind,generous, and being in service to others.Compelling others to behave as you wishthem to behave in the name of theGolden Rule is a corruption of a sacred principle.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We live in a wonderful world that isfull of beauty, charm and adventure.There is no end to the adventures that we can haveif only we seek them with our eyes open.- Jawaharlal Nehru

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understandmy complaint about them not understanding me.- Soren Kierkegaard

Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.- Albert Einstein

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.- Benjamin Franklin

"Go to the people and live among themin order to know them and learn from them.- Jimmy Yen

If you want to be heroic,Don't emulate your heroes,learn from them.Heroes don't follow anyone,they set their own course.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is not the absence of problems,but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I renounce all assumptions and expectations.I thoughtfully consider all possibilities,and CHOOSE among them with consciousness.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

However many holy words you read, however many you speak,what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?- The Buddha

If you have built castles in the air,your work need not be lost;that is where they should be.Now put foundations under them.- Henry David Thoreau

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.You don't win once in a while,you don't do things right once in a while,you do them right all the time.Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.- Vince Lombardi

We may have found a cure for most evils;but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,the apathy of human beings.- Helen Keller

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes,but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.- E. F. Schumacher

Stand up to your obstaclesand do something about them.You will find that they haven'thalf the strength you think they have.- Norman Vincent Peale

Men are disturbed not by things,but by the view which they take of them.- Epictetus

Love them as they are,and forgive them everything.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It had long since come to my attentionthat people of accomplishmentrarely sat back and let things happen to them.They went out and happened to things.- Leonardo da Vinci

Do not seek to bring things to passin accordance with your wishes,but wish for them as they are,and you will find them.- Epictetus

I must uphold my ideals,for perhaps the time will comewhen I shall be able to carry them out.- Anne Frank

Beginning today, treat everyone you meetas if they were going to be dead by midnight.Extend to them all the care,kindness and understanding you can muster,and do with no thought of any reward.Your life will never be the same again.- Og Mandino

Most truths are so nakedthat people feel sorry for themand cover them up,at least a little bit.- Edward R. Murrow

Love is what we were born with.Fear is what we learned here.Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.The real miracle is the love that inspires them.In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.- Marianne Williamson

Problems cannot be solved at the same levelof awareness that created them.- Albert Einstein

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.- Michael Jordan

The things of this world exist;they are; you can't refuse them.- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with carefor people will hear them and be influencedby them for good or ill.- The Buddha

We cannot solve our problems with the samethinking we used when we created them.- Albert Einstein

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.Let reality be reality.Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.- Lao Tzu

I CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration:I renounce all assumptions and expectations,and declare that I will thoughtfully considerall possibilities and CHOOSE among them with consciousness.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The less I take the difficulties of my life as personal affront,and the more I use them as an opportunity to learn and grow...the easier I sleep at night.- Mary Anne Radmacher

You can easily judge the character of othersby how they treat those who cando nothing for them or to them.- Malcolm S. Forbes

Intellectuals solve problems,geniuses prevent them.- Albert Einstein

In all things and in all ways,choice impacts virtually every element of our life.It bears repeating that even those thingswhich seem out of reach of our choiceare governed by how we choose to perceive them.- Mary Anne Radmacher

Many people allow their needfor other people's approval to control their lives.They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.- Rick Warren

The only way to discover the limits of the possibleis to go beyond them into the impossible.- Arthur C. Clarke

Lovers embrace that which is between themrather than each other.- Khalil Gibran

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out therewho will try to discourage you.Don't listen to them.The only one who can make you give up is yourself.- Sidney Sheldon

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,I can see them as teachers.- Gerald Jampolsky

Everyone is born a genius,but the process of living de-geniuses them.- R. Buckminster Fuller

It is not the magnitude of our actionsbut the amount of lovethat is put into them that matters.- Mother Teresa

There are very few human beings who receive the truth,complete and staggering, by instant illumination.Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,on a small scale, by successive developments,cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.- Anais Nin

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,and to serve them one's self?- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.- Mother Teresa

I believe that anyone can conquer fearby doing the things he fears to do,provided he keeps doing them until he getsa record of successful experience behind him.- Eleanor Roosevelt

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.I don't believe in circumstances.The people who get on in the world are the people whoget up and look for the circumstances they want,and if they can't find them, make them.- George Bernard Shaw

The highest result of education is tolerance.Long ago men fought and died for their faith;but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethrenand their rights of conscience.- Helen Keller

Go to the peopleLive among themLearn from themLove themServe themPlan with themStart with what they knowBuild on what they have.- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)

USE this time of fresh beginnings.Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.Exert more influence over your dreamsby bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.- Mary Anne Radmacher

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...Forgive them anyway.- Kent Keith(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copyon the wall of her orphanage)

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.- Alan Watts

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energyon account of most of them?Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?- Dale Carnegie